HUMPHREYS, Arthur William

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Rank:

Colour Sergeant

Unit / Base:

45RM Commando

Regiment/Corps:

Royal Marines

Service:

Royal Navy

Service Number:

PO/X1305

P.O.W. number:

1398

P.O.W. camps:

Marlag and Milag Nord, Westertimke, Germany

Born:

Sunday, March 5, 1916

Birthplace:

Greenwich

Died:

1998

Place died or last resided:

Lincolnshire

Colour Sergeant Arthur William Humphreys was wounded and taken prisoner on 8 June 1944 during operations near Cabourg, Normandy. He spent the next six weeks in German Military Hospitals before being moved on 21 July 1944 to a prisoner of war camp. He escaped with Sgt. R. Whittington RM [see notes] from a column of prisoners on 10 April 1945 eight hours into a forced march away from Marlag and Milag Nord Camp.
Arthur William Humphreys enlisted into the Royal Marines on 17 July 1933 and served for 13 years after which he joined the Federation of Malaya Police as a Police Inspector. In 1954 he became an Inspector in the Northampton and District branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Sources

List of RM Commandos provided by RY (former CA Sec and CBF).

Prisoners of War / National Archives files ADM 201/111 (surname spelt as HUMPHRIES).

German Record Cards of British PoW's / National Archives file WO416/188/292.

Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/154/2.

Image and report in the Northampton Mercury 7 May 1954.

Notes

From WO344/343/2 this will be PO/X1064 Sgt. Ronald William Herbert Whittington RM, MNBDO, captured at Crete (not commando).

Additional content:

Normandy - Operation Overlord

Archive pages :

45RM Commando